nVidia vs. ATI

[Henry Spencer]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, William O'Higgins wrote:
> A Canadian outfit that I have found gives me excellent results is
> Matrox.  They have and support Linux drivers on their web site, and the
> cards themselves seem rock solid.  I don't play games so I cannot
> comment on that score...

The one place where Matrox historically has been hopeless is support for
high-speed dynamic 3D graphics.  That is, games.  It's never been a
priority of theirs and they're no longer competitive at all there.

But for clear, *sharp*, high-resolution text or not-too-dynamic graphics,
their cards blow the doors off everything else.  I can't say I'm up on
the latest hardware, but last time I looked, nVidia and ATI ran a very
poor second there.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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